It became very popular. One critic said it described the poetry of flight as no other book on flying had ever done.

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That's all but it's no mere figure of speech though one can make figures enough about it in his poetry very often].

他说的就是这些，不只是语言,虽然人可以说很多这样的话,经常在他的诗歌中这样。

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From the standpoint of a devout person, he had no doubt that poetry was inferior to divinity.

站在神职人员的立场来看，他毫无疑问会将诗学排在神学之后。

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And there's another question which you would no doubt be concerned to discuss, namely what would such Socratically purified ? music and poetry look like?

而另一个,你们一定会想要讨论的问题是，何谓经苏格拉底纯化过的,音乐与诗学形式？

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The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

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Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

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